By MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The young technician shut off the electricity at a cellular tower in rural Mexico to begin some routine maintenance.Within 10 minutes, he had company: three armed men dressed in fatigues emblazoned with the logo of a major drug cartel.The visitors let him off with a warning.“I was so nervous... Seeing them armed in front of you, you don’t know how to react,” the worker told Reuters, recalling the 2018 encounter. “Little by little, you learn how to coexist with them, how to address them, how to make them see that you don’t represent a threat.”The contractor had...…By MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The young technician shut off the electricity at a cellular tower in rural Mexico to begin some routine maintenance.Within 10 minutes, he had company: three armed men dressed in fatigues emblazoned with the logo of a major drug cartel.The visitors let him off with a warning.“I was so nervous... Seeing them armed in front of you, you don’t know how to react,” the worker told Reuters, recalling the 2018 encounter. “Little by little, you learn how to coexist with them, how to address them, how to make them see that you don’t represent a threat.”The contractor had...WW…

By MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The young technician shut off the electricity at a cellular tower in rural Mexico to begin some routine maintenance.Within 10 minutes, he had company: three armed men dressed in fatigues emblazoned with the logo of a major drug cartel.The visitors let him off with a warning.“I was so nervous... Seeing them armed in front of you, you don’t know how to react,” the worker told Reuters, recalling the 2018 encounter. “Little by little, you learn how to coexist with them, how to address them, how to make them see that you don’t represent a threat.”The contractor had...…By MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The young technician shut off the electricity at a cellular tower in rural Mexico to begin some routine maintenance.Within 10 minutes, he had company: three armed men dressed in fatigues emblazoned with the logo of a major drug cartel.The visitors let him off with a warning.“I was so nervous... Seeing them armed in front of you, you don’t know how to react,” the worker told Reuters, recalling the 2018 encounter. “Little by little, you learn how to coexist with them, how to address them, how to make them see that you don’t represent a threat.”The contractor had...WW…

By MATAMOROS, Mexico (Reuters) - For a few precious hours, Luz thought she would soon see her children again.The 42-year-old Peruvian is one of about 2,000 migrants, mostly seeking asylum in the United States, who are living in a sea of tents on the banks of the Rio Grande in Mexico, within view of the frontier fence.On Friday afternoon, a U.S. court blocked the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy that has forced them to wait south of the border as their cases proceed.The policy is central to President Donald Trump’s quest to reduce the number of people granted entry to the...…By MATAMOROS, Mexico (Reuters) - For a few precious hours, Luz thought she would soon see her children again.The 42-year-old Peruvian is one of about 2,000 migrants, mostly seeking asylum in the United States, who are living in a sea of tents on the banks of the Rio Grande in Mexico, within view of the frontier fence.On Friday afternoon, a U.S. court blocked the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy that has forced them to wait south of the border as their cases proceed.The policy is central to President Donald Trump’s quest to reduce the number of people granted entry to the...WW…

By , (Reuters) - Red tape and rules on importing medical gear have delayed work on a field hospital for migrants in an asylum camp near Mexico’s border with Texas, undercutting efforts to prepare for the coronavirus pandemic, according to organizers of the project.Mexican authorities approved construction of the 20-bed field hospital on April 2. But since then, a trailer laden with supplies for the project has been parked in Brownsville, Texas, less than a block from the U.S.-Mexico border.Global Response Management, the nonprofit sprearheading the project, said the trailer contains an...…By , (Reuters) - Red tape and rules on importing medical gear have delayed work on a field hospital for migrants in an asylum camp near Mexico’s border with Texas, undercutting efforts to prepare for the coronavirus pandemic, according to organizers of the project.Mexican authorities approved construction of the 20-bed field hospital on April 2. But since then, a trailer laden with supplies for the project has been parked in Brownsville, Texas, less than a block from the U.S.-Mexico border.Global Response Management, the nonprofit sprearheading the project, said the trailer contains an...WW…